cleveland. still for them anything that stops mitt romney hats proven to be good for romney an santorum could very well be on their way. last night both gingrich and ron paul, who also had a disappointing night, chose to look on the bright side. we came in second in nevada, we came in second in florida, first in south carolina. i think we re going to do very well on super tuesday. we re going to compete very intensely in arizona and michigan. so i think everything s got to figure out their own campaign strategy. the straw vote is one thing, but there s one other thing called delegates. yeah. there s other good news, too. it s an ongoing caucus over on the east coast, i think it s the state called maine? rick santorum didn t win any-day-old gates technically,
their right hand? all right. jonathan martin, dean and lewis. cillizza and martin, here all week. there it is. up next we ll hear directly from the romney campaign. how do they plan to than this thew yaism gap. is romney prepared to fight a two-front war? plus president obama scores a major endorsement from one of the country s most vocal unions, into a the deep dive the organized union. but a look at the president s schedule. doing a little politicses today inside the democratic party. democratic caucus retreat. today my journey continues across the golden state, where everyone has been unbelievably nice. mornin .
he needs to be doing that. shira, he s already talking about april or may is when we have this wrapped up. the direction that his numbers are going in the general election, that s not good for him. time is not on his side in this primary fight as it was in previous years. there s trepidation among republicans about how long this contest could go on. i don t think many people agree with newt you could have a brokered convention. they do run a risk if they keep pushing this fight past april into may. that s a problem more so on the money side of things because they re spending all of this money and they have to come back and fund raise again. it s a tricky calendar. it seems the president is benefiting. you have a country who would like to consider an alternative for the president but they re not crazy about romney and you have a republican party that would like to consider an alternative but they re not crazy on their options. he needs to get through threes primaries. the proble
back and forth on this issue. contraception cover aage in massachusetts, you said, yes, he vetoed that bill, but he did talk about in his hard of hearts, he believed in emergency contraception for forhospitals only catholic church. this was a big fight. there was a bill proposed by democrats in the legislature that would have made plan b, which is emergency contraception broadly available, including in catholic hospitals. mitt romney vetoed that bill. it was then overridden, so it became law over mitt romney s objection. the statement he made with respect to his heart of hearts, he said two things. he believes that rape victims should have access to plan b contraception, or information on where to get it. now, that latter part of the
but you didn t mention message. that seems to be a problem at least with the conservative base, because one thing about last night that i don t think anybody can deny was the diehard republican voters that trudged to the caucuses and that beauty contest in missouri. these are the folks you want in october if you re the nominee, making phone calls, knocking on doors. would is it a struggle still to win them over? i don t think it is at struggle. some of the same concerns about mitt romney and conservatives were raised before new hampshire, before florida, before nevada. in each of those contests you saw that he won broadly, i think the real message from last night is that unlike what newt gingrich tried to persuade us of, which is this is a two-person contest, it s actually a race between mitt romney and a divided field. whether you re talking about rick santorum or newt gingrich,